St. Paul daily globe., 1887-08-15
How the Weather Has Looked the Past
Week Through the Eyes Of the Sig
nal Service Officers.
From Lake Superior Westward to the
Pacific the Average Temperature
j Slightly Below the Normal.
Al, Excess Of Rainfall Reported From
Southern Minnesota and Other Sec
I. lions Recently Suffering. as
A Favorable Week for the Cotton Crop
Mot Enough Rain for Tobacco y,
in Kentucky. 'e,

WASHINGTON, Aug. 1.-THE signal
office weekly weather crop bulletin re-
ports that during the week ending Aug.
l3 the daily average temperature has
been from % to 50 below the normal in
the states on the Atlantic coast. 1t has
been decidedly warmer than usual i'll
the Central valleys. the daily excess
ranging from 80 to So, and in the re-
gion from Texas northward to Nebraska
the daily average excess ranged from
50 to 90. In California the daily aver
age temperature was from 80 tore
below the normal. The average
temperature of the season, from Jan. 1
to Aug. 13, has been generally in excess
from the Alleghanies westward to the
Rocky mountains, the daily average ex-
cess in this region ranging from IL to
40. The seasonal temperature has also
been in excess in the Middle Atlantic
states and Southern New England, but
at all other Atlantic coast stations and
from Lake Superior westward to the
Pacific coast the average temperature
has been slightly below the normal.
During the week the
RAINFALL
has been slightly in excess in the
drOuth region of Northern Illinois,
Southern Wisconsin, Southern Michi-
gan, Northern Indiana and Eastern
Iowa. Slight excesseS are also reported
from Northwestern Missouri, Eastern
Kansas, Nebraska and Southern Mime
sofa, and this morning general rains are
reported in the drOuth region, from
Missouri and Iowa eastward to Ohio.
In all other sections the rainfall was
less than usual, except in the eastern
portion of the cotton region, Eastern
Virginia and southern portions of Louis
lana and Mississippi, where the rainfall
for the week was slightly in excess.
The large seasonal deficiency in rainfall
previously reported in the western pOr-
ton of the cotton region, and in the
corn belt, from Ohio westward to Iowa
and Missouri, continues, although re-
cent rains have decreased this def
cheney in the northern portion of the
corn belt. During the past four weeks
less than 25 per cent. of the usual rain
fall has occurred in Southern and Cen
trail Illinois, Western Kentucky, South
ern Missouri and Northern Arkansas.
Less than so per cent. of the. usual
amount of rainfall occurred in the
states of the
MISSISSIPPI VALLEY,
and the greater portion of the rain re-
ported in this section for the month fell
during the past week. In Western Min
nesota, Dakota and Nebraska, and gen.
orally in the states on the Atlantic
coast, there has been an excess of rain
fall during the past month. The drOuth
previously reported in the corn belt in
the central valleys has been followed by
general rains. and the conditions exist
ing this morning Indicate that rain will
continue in this section, but the reports
from Ohio, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri,
Nebraska and Kansas state that the
rains came too late to cause marked inn
prOvement in the already injured crops.
The weather has been generally favor
able for all crops in the states on. the
Atlantic coast from Georgia nOrthward
to New England, and reports from Mis-
SiSSippi, Arkansas and Alabama indi-
cate that the weather for the week has
been favorable for the cotton crop,
although this crop needs more rain in
portions of Tennessee and Arkansas.
Less than so per cent. of the usual
amount of rain was reported in the to-
baccO region of Kentucky and West
Tennessee during the past four weeks.
During the same period in Virginia
over Is per cent. of the usual amount
of rain occurred, and in North Carolina,
Pennsylvania and Connecticut the rain
fall for the month has been largely in
excess.